YUNHAO ZHONG

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  • Interior Work by Haven Craft
  • Interior Work by Haven Craft
  • Interior Work by Haven Craft
  • Interior Work by Haven Craft
  • Interior Work by Haven Craft



Cross-Scale Architect

Architectural Futurist

Computational Strategist

Design Intelligence Innovator

Urban Automation Researcher

AI-Driven Design Visionary

Interdisciplinary Systems Thinker

Human-Centered Technologist

Architecture, in its truest form, is the orchestration of intelligence across scales: from the molecular to the metropolitan, from the algorithmic to the atmospheric. My practice operates at this intersection of computational cognition and spatial poetics, where buildings learn, cities think, and environments evolve with their inhabitants.

Over the past decade, I have cultivated a methodology that transcends conventional boundaries between design and technology. Through collaborations with leading institutions (from Columbia GSAPP to UCL Bartlett, from RMJM's towers in Shenzhen to Roy Projects' speculative futures in New York) I have developed frameworks where architecture emerges not from singular vision but from systemic intelligence. My work interrogates expansive territories: How do emotions generate settlement patterns? Can automation democratize housing production? How might resilience infrastructure adapt to uncertainty? What emerges when multiplayer design becomes real-time architecture?

The projects I create exist simultaneously as built reality and theoretical proposition. Corporate headquarters become vertical civic ecosystems. Innovation campuses organize knowledge through biological metaphor. Museums transform into multimodal transit hubs. Housing networks replace corridors with social encounters. Each intervention operates across dimensions: from speculative megastructures questioning algorithmic power to community pavilions elevating public space, from AI-driven urban simulations to circular economy building systems.

My research explores territories where traditional practice fears to venture: affective computing as spatial generator, machine learning as design partner, cities as living organisms. These investigations, published internationally and exhibited from Houston to London, position architecture not as static shelter but as adaptive intelligence: responsive to climate, culture, and human aspiration.

I see the architect's role evolving from author to orchestrator: conducting vast networks of human and artificial intelligence toward spatial outcomes that transcend individual imagination. In an era of planetary crisis and technological transformation, architecture must become more than building; it must become a framework for collective intelligence, ecological resilience, and human flourishing.

This is the architecture I practice: anticipatory, systemic, and alive.

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